My Casio Elixim takes great pics during the day but night is another story!?

Question

I just cannot find the right setting for indoor and outdoor photos when it is not daylight. They are blurry or a bit psychedelic-there is nothing in the manual!

Answer 1

Just put the camera in the auto mode, and the flash should go off.

once you have the camera in the auto mode, and the flash fires, there shouldn't be any blur. Do you have an example to show us or something like that? can't help if we can't see what you're talking about.  

Answer 2

Use a tripod to help with the blur....or use the timer and something stable like a step or bench to set the camera on. Set your camera to a high ISO (depending on the amount of light already present, 400 or 800 should do the trick, there will be some grain with such a high ISO but if it's very dark out, there's nothing else you can do with a P&S) or you can use some other source of light like a heavy duty worklight or flashlight. Increasing the exposure can help too.

Answer 3

Turn the flash OFF. Place the camera on a tripod or other secure, stable surface. Set the self timer to at least 2 seconds... this is so when you push the shutter button, there will not be blur due to camera movement... the camera will take the photo after the timer finishes it's countdown. Also, set the ISO to 100. Do not let the camera automatically select a high ISO, as that always will look awful on a point and shoot. Do all that and the camera should set a long enough exposure time to get some good, ambient light night photos. Be aware, there will be blur of any SUBJECT movement, which can actually look good for such things as blurred car lights and such.

steve

Answer 4

what's happening is that the shutter speed for the camera is to slow during the night, i longer the shutter is open the More light it lets in. thus for dark pictures at night and what not it will need to be open longer, but when it is open for longer anything that moves will have a drag or blur effect.

ways to fix it are either

by using the flash- though in dark areas the background will most likely be lost.

or as others said a tripod.